Star Trek Online Beta: Set Phasers to Fun - Part 01

Well this is awesome

Thanks for the key, you guys are awsome.

" Majel Barrett played Nurse Chapel, Lwaxanna Troi and "Number One" on the first Star Trek pilot (as well as the computer voice for many of the series [and other voice work on the animated series too]). "

If this is Part 01 of something then shouldn't it be where the Endurance run episodes are?

goddamn it, no matter how many times I see you guys go through a character creation set up I cannot stop laughing

Majel Barrett played Nurse Chapel, Lwaxanna Troi and "Number One" on the first Star Trek pilot (as well as the computer voice for many of the series [and other voice work on the animated series too]).

I cannot believe when holograms were the topic, Rimmer from Red Dwarf wasn't mentioned. He's like, the king of sci-fi holograms.

The creation part alone as me in stitches. God that was fantastic. 

Man, I hate to be a negative nancy, but that looked like some SHIT.
 
I always imagined a Star Trek MMO being more Star Treky and less MMOy. Like, every single environment in that game clearly came from an MMO. The bridge of the starship looked like an MMO map, not in any way did I ever buy that it was designed to look at all like any bridge ever.
 
Also, not every goddamn MMO has to start out with you getting into some gigantic fucking all-important battle with Borg cubes or Darth Vader or whatever. It's STAR TREK. You could have the player start out in the Academy! Have them learn how to play the game in the same place people learn how to do things in Star Trek! Have people take the Kobayashi Maru test! It would be awesome! But no, just gotta go for the stupid artificially important tutorial mission that gets super dumb with every character after the first one you make.
 
The only part that reminded me of Star Trek in any way, was the bit at the end where they beam down to a planet and look like they're gettin' ready to do some fightin'. Because that is something that Star Trek is about - beaming down to planets and fighting. The rest of what I just saw was so bland it might as well be any other MMO ever made with a Star Trek skin slapped on it. Even the space bits were boring because you were essentially killing rats, except in this case it was Borg probes and you were in space. At least Star Wars Galaxies gave it's space stuff some decent gameplay and let you walk around your ship and stuff.

" Dave: The blue torpedoes are Quantum, the red are Photon. Yes, I am that much of a geek. "

Awesome!! This is good news

I loved SWG  Pre CU. 
 
They ruined it by trying to copy other mmos.

Thanks for the key. Can't wait for it to finish downloading. It would be great to see more give aways like this.

Any idea where people are getting keys for this? Admittedly, I'm yet to search the forums, but yeah, help?
 
EDIT: http://www.giantbomb.com/stobeta/ for anyone intested.

Finally got around to watching the original series last summer and became addicted to star trek, thanks for the key guys

Majel Barrett didn't play Yeoman Rand, she played Nurse Chapel.  DUH.  And you call yourselves Star Trek fans...  
 
:P

Hate to say it, but this quick look made me go look up the system requirements for this game.

Time to give the game a shot I guess.

Great vid! I vented so much plasma at the end with that bug :D and thanks for the beta key. Tbh I was doing the dishes while I was listening to this, it was a  mad dash to get the key with rubber gloves on! 
 
Can't wait to get into the character creator, i've spent hours in COX and Champions just making a character. 

This is the only game where I would play a healer because Dr.McCoy is awesome

I have no hands and I must swim!
Thanks for the beta key, guys!

Dave is way into this game, totally awesome!

EDIT: Where are all these guys getting their beta-key from? Brad posted a few but I figured those were already in use by the time us Euro's get to check this site?

This is the best thing ever

Dancing space ships! Space combat reminds me of Jump to Lightspeed. Got my beta key though thanks GB.

Thank you Giant Bomb this Tea Earl Grey Hot is for you.

Cheers for the key guys.

LOOOOLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoot Thanks for the BETA key giantbomb, you guys are....um... da bomb?
Can't wait to get warped down as a mini ship.
 
Seabiscuit FTW!!

Got a beta key, but 1 day to download....seems the servers are overloaded.

Greatest open beta glitch ever.

 Just finished download the beta client. Looks like an fun game.

Got my key. Download once I get out of work and am back home. Hope to cross paths with the seabiscuit with my own ridiculous alien race character.

Great to see a new video series up and going.

Not like this!

I want to get in the beta just so I have a chance to run into the GB crew and kiss them. Is there a pink uniform in star trek?

haha that ending was hillarious. I have pretty fun with this game. The abilities and skills is still very confusing to me but I kinda like it.
 
Thanks for the beta key by the way. :)

Stoopid Beta! Always patches, then it wont let you log into the servers... garghhhh!* 
 
 
 *expression of annoyance

Awesome. I've got my key as well. When will you guys be on-line? Can you tell us so I can join you at the same time? Congtratz to GiantBomb for making this.
 
Edit: This video is in the Quick-Look section and not in the Endurance Run section. But, you're still going to make more of this, right?

Awesome, hopefully this "series" will last awhile.

The bug at the end was hilarious

THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HEAH

Dave: The blue torpedoes are Quantum, the red are Photon. Yes, I am that much of a geek.

Yeoman Rand?!?!  Are you guys serious?!  I'm disappointed, I thought you guys were geeks.
 
 
She was NURSE CHAPEL as well as being Deanna Troi's mother in TNG.

Tried out the beta last night - buggy in places and a little difficult to get the hang of because it's so different to other MMOs like WoW, but it's LOADS of fun. Really love it. Just hope they fix it so it runs a bit better on my system.

I'm in the beta now, THANKS GIANT BOMB!

I will be all over this game if I can eject the warp core and/or go to the battle bridge.

Shame the game sucks.